Ever since I started watching Casey Neistat’s vlogs on YouTube, I’ve had this intense desire to own a drone.

Last week I finally became the proud owner of a DJI Mavic Pro. I’ve only had the chance to take it up in the air twice, but I can unequivocally say that it’s one of the most amazing pieces of technology I own.

I mean, just look at the footage I was able to grab without any knowledge of how the drone or camera works.

I can’t wait to see what I’m able to do with it next week in Costa Rica.

Great insight from MacSparky on the recent Uber / Unroll.me controversy:

Free is never free. Indeed in this case, where unroll.me is owned by an analytics service, it appears that the entire purpose for the service is to get access to user email data for monetization. So apparently Unroll.me, with access to its user email accounts, collected their Lyft receipts, anonymized them, and sold them to Uber. I’m pretty sure people signing up for unroll.me don’t expect that to happen.

I was an Unroll.me user until this story broke. Even though I knew the service was free and that I was probably paying for it with my data – It was easy to forget once the service became an integral part of my workflow.

I have since signed back up for Sanebox (I should have just stayed all along instead of trying to save a few bucks). It’s reassuring to know that, with Sanebox, I won’t be the product because I’m paying for the product.

“This looks nice. Maybe I should give Evernote another shot. I mean, I’m not in love with my cobbled together Apple Notes / Dropbox solution. A couple of days messing around with it can’t hurt anything.”

Then, I thought about how much work I had to go through late last year to move the 2000+ files & notes out of my Evernote database because of how little focus they put on improving their core product for so long.